* [PATCH] btrfs: wait for RCU readers before freeing a new device
@ 2026-09-05 11:06 Mai Hai Son
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From: Mai Hai Son @ 2026-09-05 11:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: dsterba, clm, linux-btrfs; +Cc: linux-kernel, Mai Hai Son
btrfs_init_new_device() adds the new device to the RCU-protected
fs_devices->devices list before completing the device-add operation. If a
later step fails, error_sysfs removes the device with list_del_rcu() and
then frees it without waiting for an RCU grace period.
A concurrent reader such as btrfs_ioctl_dev_info() may still hold the
device pointer it obtained under rcu_read_lock() and dereference it
after btrfs_free_device() has already freed it, triggering a KASAN
slab-use-after-free report:
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in btrfs_ioctl+0x58e4/0x5d40
Read of size 8 at addr ffff8881176fa870 by task poc/84
Call Trace:
kasan_report+0xe4/0x1a0
btrfs_ioctl+0x58e4/0x5d40
__x64_sys_ioctl+0x121/0x1a0
do_syscall_64+0xf7/0x5a0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
Allocated by task 81:
btrfs_alloc_device+0xb0/0x3e0
btrfs_init_new_device+0x4b2/0x3660
btrfs_ioctl_add_dev+0x179/0x430
btrfs_ioctl+0x11e0/0x5d40
Freed by task 81:
kfree+0x1b8/0x550
btrfs_init_new_device+0x56b/0x3660
btrfs_ioctl_add_dev+0x179/0x430
btrfs_ioctl+0x11e0/0x5d40
Wait for an RCU grace period after removing the device from the list and
before freeing it.
Fixes: 39379faaad79 ("btrfs: revert fs_devices state on error of btrfs_init_new_device")
Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5.6
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Mai Hai Son <haison120404@gmail.com>
---
fs/btrfs/volumes.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/volumes.c b/fs/btrfs/volumes.c
index 9b66eb584..af59291b7 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/volumes.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/volumes.c
@@ -3133,6 +3133,7 @@ int btrfs_init_new_device(struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info, const char *device_path
btrfs_update_per_profile_avail(fs_info);
mutex_unlock(&fs_info->chunk_mutex);
mutex_unlock(&fs_info->fs_devices->device_list_mutex);
+ synchronize_rcu();
error_trans:
if (trans)
btrfs_end_transaction(trans);
base-commit: 4d7d9486c04d917265f64c55bd23b2cc4fe7749c
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